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World Urban Forum takes place in Kuala Lumpur

<p>From 6 – 13 February the global urban community will gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the 9th World Urban Forum, following up on the decisions taken at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador in 2016.</p>

05.02.2018

Future of Science: Voices from our partners

<p>This is part of a series of interviews with leaders from international partner organisations. We asked them to weigh in on the importance of our proposed merger with the International Council for Science for a fast-changing scientific future.</p>

18.10.2017

Early career scientists gather for LIRA trans-disciplinary workshop in Uganda

<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, 31 representatives of the successful pre-proposals attended a 5-day training workshop on trans-disciplinary (TD) research, which took place on 28 August – 1 September 2017 at the Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda.</p>

04.09.2017

Focus on Interactions: Second Nexus Conference Announced for 2018

<p><a href="http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/">The Water Institute</a> at the University of North Carolina has announced that the second Nexus Conference on the theme of Water, Food, Energy and Climate will take place 16-18 April 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.</p>

01.08.2017

New urban science policy expert panel to meet in London next week

<p>Nearly 30 world leading experts on urbanisation will gather in London next week for the inaugural meeting of the new UCL-<em>Nature Sustainability</em> Expert Panel to discuss new recommendations on strengthening the urban science policy interface to support the implementation of SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda.</p>

26.06.2017

Urban Health Working Group meets in El Salvador

<p>The ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has organized and hosted two meetings for the Urban Health Working Group with the goal of promoting and discussing the Urban Health agenda in El Salvador and the region.</p>

13.04.2017

Call for pre-proposals: Advancing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities in Africa

<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, the International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) will support 10 collaborative research projects across Africa (to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years) that will advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (sustainable cities and communities) in Africa.</p>

27.02.2017

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